Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.
113 directing credits · 15 acting credits
Directing · 113
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Memoria
2021
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
Tropical Malady
2004
Cemetery of Splendor
2015
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Syndromes and a Century
2006
Blissfully Yours
2002
Mysterious Object at Noon
2000
The Anthem
2006
Ten Years Thailand
2018
async - first light
2017
Stories on Human Rights
2008
Mekong Hotel
2012
Windows
1999
TON
2004
Ashes
2012
20 Little Films
2012
Worldly Desires
2005
January Stories
2024
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005
Art Through Our Eyes
2016
My Mother’s Garden
2007
The State of the World
2007
Fiction
2018
Vapour
2015
Ghost of Asia
2005
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
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Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011
Sleep Song
2022
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026
Cinetracts '20
2020
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012
Ablaze
2016
Primitive
2009
Luminous People
2007
Short Plays
2014
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
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Three Rocks
2022
Solarium
2023
Emerald
2007
For Bruce
2022
Monsoon
2011
Fireworks (Archives)
2014
Phantoms
2025
Haunted Houses
2001
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004
Malee and the Boy
1999
Sarit
2021
One Water
2013
Durmiente
2022
Meteorites
2007
On Blue
2022
Father
2001
Father
2014
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009
Blue
2018
Invisibility
2016
M Hotel
2011
Footprints
2014
Fever Room
2015
Vampire
2008
Untitled
2019
Nokia Short
2003
Fan Dog
2016
Mobile Men
2008
Rolling
2015
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
2008
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
Thirdworld
1999
For Monkeys Only
2014
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002
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1994
This and a Million More Lights
2003
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018
Walking
2022
Blue Propeller
2013
Fireworks Sketch
2014
Action et Réaction
2022
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022
Teem
2007
2020
2020
I'm Still Breathing
2009
Prosperity for 2008
2008
Sakda, Somchai
2018
Making of the Spaceship
2009
Waterfall
2021
Nabua
2009
Nabua Song
2009
A Dedicated Machine
2009
Dilbar
2013
Decameron
2020
An Evening Shoot
2009
October Rumbles
2020
Bullet
1993
Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017
Night Colonies
2021
Haiku
2009
2017
2017
Empire
2010
Phantoms of Nabua
2009
Cactus River
2012
Home
2018
Seeing Circles
2020
For Shellie
—
2019
2019
Home
—
Jenjira, Death
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Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994
Boys at Noon
2000
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
Acting · 15
Kulturzeit
1995
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012
Past Present
2013
Cinema Futures
2016
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Mekong Hotel
2012
Behind the Blur
2009
Wiara
2018
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
Thirdworld
1999
Circulation
1998
Uncertain Path
2021
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014